Parsing Microsoft’s Massive 42% Gain In 2013

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/14/parsing-microsofts-massive-42-gain-in-2013/

by ibsathish • 13 years ago

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001sky2• 13 years ago

Intersting premis for a conversation: MSFT up 42%

Not sure the TC article sheds any light on it, though.

ibsathish• 13 years ago

True. TC article does not shed any light on this. But, the fact the MSFT failed to see the future in the last decade and becoming complacent about what they had made to the reversal of fortunes. They missed to realize mobile & cloud were multi-billion dollar opportunities. When they tried to make adjustments, it was too late.

Nevertheless, the news of the moving of the man on top gave some cheers to the wall street to go bang it and despite the fact they did not make any noteworthy product in the year in review, the stocks went up 42%.

It deserves a discussion.

ahi• 13 years ago

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^ixic Bernanke's magic. TC articles should probably be autokilled.

300bps3• 13 years ago

Nasdaq is up 28.07% YTD while Microsoft is up 37% YTD. That's quite an accomplishment and can't be explained by the "rising tide" theory you are putting forth.

Plus keep in mind that Apple is DOWN 4.38% YTD.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EIXIC+Interactive#symbo...

RyanZAG• 13 years ago

Let's try to reconcile your three facts:

  Average is positive.
  Microsoft up a bit more than the average.
  Apple down incredibly more than the average.

If most decent stocks went up by about 40% but a few stocks like Apple actually went down, the average would be somewhere around 30%. This means that Microsoft's stock could stay at par while others went down and Microsoft would beat the average.

Steve leaving probably helped a couple percent, but it's just noise.

300bps3• 13 years ago

There are websites and whole communities of developers that happily use Microsoft development technologies every day blissfully unaware of the existence of communities like Hacker News.

Hacker News is the mirror image of those communities and as such remains completely baffled by Microsoft's continued success while "nobody uses their products."

vyrotek• 13 years ago

Things around here have gotten a little better since I joined HN. I put myself in that camp of developers happily using Microsoft technologies. I've been on HN for over 5 years and I feel the tone has changed a bit.

I was originally pretty surprised at the responses from the HN community when I first shared that my startup was built on .Net and was happy with it. Now I bump into many other startups around here built on .Net too and I'm seeing more and more discussions about Azure and C#.

Parsing Microsoft’s Massive 42% Gain In 2013

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